High self-esteem is highly valued charactestic among todays society, and the researches have proven that it can be a predictor of success in many areas of life, including intimate relationships. Hence, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of self-esteem in students and aspects of the quality of their intimate relationships.
The study included 281 participants from age of 18 to 27, who were estimating their self-esteem on the subscale general self of SDQIII questionnaire. The quality of their relationship was estimaed through IBM questionnaire and satisfaction of the realtioship through one particle of total relationship satisfaction.
The results are showing that there is a statistically significant correlation between high self-esteem, experienced care in an intimate relationship and high relationship satisfaction, while there is statistically negative correlation between high self-esteem and perceived control in the relationship.